Notre Dame Faces A Must-Win Against USC
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00:03 What you do against USC is what they're gonna do against Clemson,
00:06 the way that they're playing right now.
00:08 Because if you can't beat USC, it means that you didn't necessarily make
00:12 the necessary leaps.
00:14 I have no faith you're gonna go on the road and beat Clemson.
00:16 That was not the way you played against Duke and Louisville, right?
00:19 So you kind of go into some of those different areas and
00:23 you say to yourself, look, they are gonna have to figure some things out, right?
00:29 And somebody just asked, did Coach Holtz have the same coordinators in year two and
00:33 year three?
00:33 No, he didn't.
00:35 He had a new defensive coordinator in his third year, hired a guy named Barry Alvarez,
00:38 hired a new offensive coordinator in year three.
00:40 So again, changes were made.
00:42 They didn't just do the play a little harder, play a little better.
00:45 But with Coach Freeman, it's like, look, what can you do right now with this team?
00:48 You have a veteran team, you have an experienced team.
00:50 You've gotta show me that you can push the right buttons to get this team going.
00:54 Cuz with Lou Holtz, you kinda knew he was gonna do what he needed to do to win,
00:57 cuz he'd done it everywhere else, right?
01:00 We don't have that track record with Coach Freeman.
01:02 And so this is a game where it's not gonna define his career, but
01:06 it's gonna be very telling, very telling about where he is.
01:10 But at the same time, right, on the flip side, we're talking doom and gloom.
01:13 But if they win this football game, and they go on the bye week with a W, and
01:17 you've got some momentum.
01:18 And so right now, we're looking at, they've lost two of their last three games.
01:21 You beat USC, you've won two of your last three games,
01:24 both overranked opponents.
01:26 >> Now you're 6-2.
01:27 >> Yeah, and then you got Pitt coming out of the bye week, who stinks.
01:31 >> Yeah, it's bad.
01:31 >> Right, and so for all the doom and gloom about what Notre Dame has done so
01:34 far, both of the teams they've lost to are combined 12 and 0.
01:37 They're both ranked in the top 15.
01:39 It's not like they're out there getting beat by Stanford and
01:40 Marshall this year, right?
01:42 So this game is gonna completely change
01:47 the view of how people view this Notre Dame football team right now.
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